Author: SALMON, XAVIER. MUSEE NATIONAL DES CHâTEAUX DE VERSAILLES ET DE TRIANON.POMP AND POWER (EXHIBITION : 2006 : LONDON, ENGLAND)
Title: Pomp and power : French drawings from Versailles / Xavier Salmon
Description: London : Trustees of the Wallace Collection (2006) 2006. First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 128 pages; Physical description. : 128 p. : col. Ill. ; 23 cm. Subject: Wallace Collection (London. England) - Exhibitions. Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon - Exhibitions. Château de Versailles (Versailles. France) - In art. Drawing. French - 18th century - Exhibitions. Drawing. French - 19th century - Exhibitions. Drawing - France - Versailles - Exhibitions. Drawing. French - Exhibitions. Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Wallace Collection. London. Oct. 5. 2006-Jan. 7. 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-127) and index. Summary: This lavish and beautiful catalogue illustrates and discusses fifty-two French drawings dating from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. all from the Chateau de Versailles. which owns one of the finest collections of French drawings in the world. Yet the drawings are little known and have never been discussed and reproduced in colour as a group. Drawings as well as paintings once adorned the royal apartments at Versailles - especially the more private ones - but were dispersed in the French Revolution. Following his accession in 1830. however. Louis-Philippe collected as many as he could together again. and they have been supplemented over time. Together. they tell the story of the major buildings at Versailles. its gardens. the court and the personalities associated with this famous palace of Louis XIV and later French kings. Among the artists represented are many of the major figures of this magnificent period of French art. including Le Brun. Lemoine. Cochin. Claude-Joseph and Horace Vernet. Jean-Baptiste Isabey. Paul Delaroche and Jacques-Louis David - whose splendid compositional study for his Oath of the Tennis Court. the event that marked the beginning of the French Revolution. is of particular interest.Weight in Kg appr.:

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